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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 15h

I should make pasties with Lincolnshire sausages!

Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 15h

I have my Cornish side from my dad, and the Lincoln side from my mum

I have a standard English southern accent apart from the words gras and baf

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 15h

Do you have an accent?

I once said wata to my my wife (not warter) when we visited Lincoln

She had no idea what I was saying

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 15h

I went to A&E on a Friday evening once with a broken collar bone

Bloody nightmare, all the dunks and violent thugs get treated first

(Hit a pothole on my bike and ended up in a hedge)

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 16h

Immigration has become a core issue, not because it effects people's daily lives much, but because it is constantly rammed into the news feed as an existential threat

People say they want less immigration, but ask them specifics, like farm workers, care staff and nurses and their opinions change

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 16h

Most of the media is owned by billionaires, so tax breaks and no regulation are their agenda

People in the UK, and no doubt the USA, are most concerned by the cost of living, medicaid or the NHS and public services

Stuff that directly effects their daily lives

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 17h

It is following the USA

Right of centre publications like the Spectator and Telegraph have swung to the hard right, based partly on more digital subscriptions internationally

The BBC largely follows the right wing press, both of which are moving away from where most people are

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Question Time has shifted their audience makeup from

"The result of the last election" - pre 2024

To

"The current political climate of the United Kingdom"

Anything to skew things to the right

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

They are actually holding a meeting about eliminating anti fascists

Think about that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

She means a Central American gulag

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

We need to pepper spray the unicorns!

Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

I might join the Territorial Army

Just in case we need to occupy Brighton and Lewes to prevent a woke uprising in Sussex

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie

I founded Antifa

I have membership card 0000001 to prove it!

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

How very Christian

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

That country is called North Korea

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

This looks like Northern Ireland in the early 1990s

Balaclavas and guns

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

American children will be getting bags of soy beans this Christmas instead of toys

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers ..

@cnbc.com #FreightRecession
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/s...

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

In this timelines, yes

Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted my accountancy software password to be

Itsfuntobeanaccountantandsailthewideaccountantsea

But the software will not allow just plain characters

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

The East German Stasi had to rely on paper files and vast card indexes to spy on their population

Modern oppressive regimes have allies in the tech bro sphere with vast databases and algorithms to profile their populations for wrongthink

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

Along with Offgen

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

Stasi V2.0

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

That's why they put the wifi password on post-it notes in offices

Even the guy who invented that rule in the first place said it was a dumb idea

The most secure passwords are very long, not a quote or line from a book and easily remembered

like

Isawthatduckgodownablackhole

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

I should have reported that beedin Pacer train I had to catch to Lincoln

But at least it got there